Defense Minister’s backer quits over corruption

A key organizer for embattled Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor has quit his post at the local Conservative riding association over what he calls “corruption from the bottom.”

J.P. Dorion has been one of O’Connor’s political organizers in the riding of Carleton-Mississippi Mills southwest of Ottawa, and until the end of last year the president of the local riding association. He and two other members of the riding executive announced last week they were quitting their posts on the board citing complaints of misuse of government property.

Dorion says he witnessed earlier this year that one of O’ Connor’s constituency employees, Glenn Trebble, had been using office computers to do party taxes and fulfil Elections Canada reporting requirements.

The constituency office computers are property of the federal government, while the books constituted Conservative party business.

Ottawa Sun
via: apply-liberally.com

When we said accountability:

A Conservative MP spoke for three hours at a Commons committee Thursday in an apparent attempt to prevent an investigation into why Foreign Affairs officials censored documents about the abuse and torture of Afghan detainees.

via: A BCer in Toronto